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LED street lighting to catch a few winks in the city that never sleeps have persuaded bureaucrats to turn down the lights.

The city began installing energy efficient LEDs in all of its led street lamps, but now it’s replacing some of those lights again because residents are complaining that they’re way too bright.

The city Department of Transportation has been toning those lights down in many parts of the city. Complaints rolled in as soon as the installations began last year as part of to LED.

The DOT had installed roughly a tenth of the E40 led street light before the growing number of unhappy residents became a glaring problem.

The rest of the street lights have or will be replaced with lower-intensity 64-watt bulbs. Which, residents say, have made some neighborhoods look like strip-mall parking lots.

The lights give the street an eerie day-for-night glow, like a Walmart parking lot or a zombie picnic, Brooklyn resident Sarah Ferguson wrote in an online petition against theled lighting fixtures manufacturers.

More than people signed the petition and many are still lighting up the Internet with angry comments. But the added cost will likely dim the savings the project was supposed to generate.

Before factoring in the cost of responding to the complaints, the city estimated the switch from sodium-vapor lights to LEDs would save energy costs on maintenance each year.